Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-05-29

-. LcViS H,pULLcaR Matthew
Arnold wien he was IN this city
Was asked what he took to be the
true standard Of pronunciation. OF
course the apostle OF culture did not
for moment think of naming pro-
nomcing dictionary, nor would any
educated Jn2hshman think OF doing
so and when the stage was named as
q possible authority he said : The
stage Why should ] take the people
of the stage ? What do they know
40: / tlIuk the best authority is the
usage Of woll-brcd women.
RosioH C0ecHc : 4 youngsterof the
nature age Ct ten, captain Of the
Foomer Club. a base ball nine in a
neighboring city, recently received Il
challenge from a rival club to play,
which he accepted Before the game
took place, however, he prepared two
reports for the local papers, either one
Of which could be used rs occasion de
manded. One set forth in glowing
colors a victorious result for his nine
The ether merely left a space for the
score, with this concluding comment:
THE game was lost by the Boomers
through had umpiring." This was
taking tine by the forelock indeed.
Harpcr's Ba.ar: A curious PROPOSE
ton has been made by the chief Of
police Of one of the large European
cities that photographs of criminals
should be taken, not with the full face
as now, nut with the side face in view,
using the ear especially, other features
changing with the course of time-a
mouth falling, an eye sinking, a nose
projecting, a brow growing prominent,
a cheek either bsggy or hollow, a chin
either pointed or doubliDg-but an ear
always remaining unchanged into old
age, and no two ears being alike 50
that q thief would be known by his
ear as long as there was anything left
OF him.
Hcmc JCUTnQi: A novelist and his
wife were relating some of their ex-
periences with Boston help. The lady
said "My second girls have been a
| great trial witt me, and if by chance ]
have a guest before new girl is well
broken in | avoid disaster in this way
Our Gining-room overlooks the Charles
and the view is beautiful. place my
guest opposite the window; my place
at the table faces the door. When /
see anything coming in wrong l kick
my husband under the table or in
some way attract his attention he has
had Lis cue, and he directs the guests
attention to something out OF the win
dow willie / correct the servant"
Chicago YriLune 4. A Dakotan and a
Texan who net in Chicago were dis
putting about the greatness of their re-
spective districts, and among other
things traded marvellous stories abOut
the work Of the wind in each locality.
Glow fast does a Texas norther
blow 2" asked the Dakotan at last.
Glow fast? Well, the only thing that
will measure it is lightning. When
Texas noriher is coming they tele-
graph ahead, so people can get
under ground, but when it gets
under good Roadway it will just
about run a ck-and-neek race with
the telegram. How fast's Dakota
blizzard?" "Oh, you can't measure a
blizzard. There's nothing like it I've
seen a blizzard skin telegraph mes
sage right off the wires and carry it on
ahead. never saw but one the speed
OF which could be measured. There
seemed to be something the matter
with that one; It went rather slow
only bout a million miles second,
and we couldn't tell what was the mat
ter with it until it went by, when we
found it was dragging one OF those
internal Texas northers along behind. '